Month: September 2016

The tourists have left, children are back at school, farmers have almost completed their harvests and, to be found in fields around most villages, plump pumpkins add a warm orange glow to the landscape. Here, in the beautiful English county of Suffolk, people are soaking up the occasional warm days left over from summer, stocking up on […]

You’ve probably heard of the expression “Feeling tongue tied”; meaning unable to speak or to speak fully. Communication is often more challenging than we give credit. Certainly, this also applies if you ever go to seek the help of a Counsellor or Psychotherapist. My clients often get into the counselling room and then find that […]

Last week was a challenge for me. It came in the form of a migraine. These days, I find that the usual few days of warning signs, also known as Aura, are just not happening. I would usually experience such things as blurred vision and sensitivity to light; for example. Now, it just seems to […]

Like many of my clients, I have sometimes been faced with considering my own identity. Although I largely appear healthy and well, I live with chronic illness. which has certainly challenged my perception of myself and has tested every aspect of my life. So, when I work with clients who face re-evaluating themselves or who […]

To set the therapeutic context most widely regarded as integral to understanding and treating self-harm, one would consider the work of Melanie Klein (1882 – 1960). Melanie Klein is widely regarded for developing Object Relations Theory. An adult sufferer of depression herself and, through her work with one of Sigmund Freud’s (1856 – 1939)students; Sandor Ferenczi […]